@scottalanmiller That's insightful and makes a lot of sense. Also, I never knew mapped drives were that much of a security risk.
I would say 95% of the customers I deal with still stand up new offices that way and have shared drives for the user base.
@mrwright4hire an overview of your critical system log files.
I had a 2003 server that the power supply was dying on and could not find a replacement so I did an image backup with shadow protect sever as well as ran the VM ware P2V tool and recovered it to a VM.
When I try to log in with the local admin-level account I have it says it's not activated and I can't log in until it is activated. I assume it broke the activation since the VM is a very different hardware profile but I can't even log in at this point.
I tried the solution here but it does nothing after the command is run https://sarithvs.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/this-copy-of-windows-must-be-activated-before-you-can-log-on/
How can I get a 2003 key that I can activate? Would that be possible with a volume license? Or MSDN subscription?
I really don't have much knowledge of the visual studio and MSDN subscriptions.
Any ideas?
@dustinb3403 I don't disagree that they made a pile of bad decisions but that's nothing to do with me as I am a private contractor so I don't work for them or care to help them with their management issues as that's not what I get paid to do.
I was hired to find a temporary fix and start the upgrade process. The upgrade process has started and concurrently I am trying to get a temporary fix going so I can concentrate on the upgrade and get paid.
The poor management issues are their business quite frankly,
Noticed that the LTO 9 tapes have just been released (been waiting a while) and I need to purchase some and a stand-alone LTO-9 drive (not a whole library setup or magazine) but not having any luck finding one online to purchase.
i have a small office customer that has a huge amount of data to backup. We currently replicate to a Synology offsite (in the same town) but they want the tape to store out of state.
Has anyone seen any single stand-alone LTO-9 tape drives I can order or anywhere I should be looking?
@travisdh1 yes plus a lot lower cost to get started with.
Should WSUS be a separate server / VM or added as a role on one of the 2 domain controllers?
What's best practice, experience?
@scottalanmiller SAM thanks for the video that does clarify it and makes it easy to understand.
@scottalanmiller What's the best thing to use on green field networks that are private and have no public facing services?
I am working on a small data center build and need to make 45 different windows server VM's that will be running on vSphere / ESXI.
I am working on making a stripped and hardened windows server installer ISO currently but are there any tools to maybe automate this process to help me build these VM's off this ISO with common network and account configurations etc?
I use smart deploy for desktop operating systems but it's not setup to build running VM's or server based OS but looking for similar functionality.
I am trying to make a rule in Outlook or Outlook 365 that will take email from a specific sender with a specific subject line and delete after so many days after the email was sent (or arrived in inbox) but I don't seem to find this level of granularity with the built in rules unless i am missing something?
I can make it delete with the built in rules but only after a specific date and not after the date the email was received as i get theses daily. I looked at outlook add in's but didn't see anything that would do this.
@scottalanmiller SAM do you have anything you have written before to compare KVM to other hypervisors like VMware perhaps?
We have Metro ethernet that is managed, and changes have to be done by the ISP. We have 10 sites where we need to expand the IP address space for an upgrade as we don't have enough addresses (only 15 per site) We are adding some network gear and need 5 more per site.
Going to each site to change this with the ISP and dealing with any issues is a PITA. I suggested we open up 15 more for growth, but my manager insists that having unused addresses like that are a security risk.
These are all remote and unmanned sites we are expanding that have crap for physical security, such as cheap locks, no cameras, and no security alarm. My rebuttal is the headache of not having room to grow is more headache than security risk. If they are really concerned with security, they should worry about the physical security issues because if someone gets physical access to our network gear, it's a done deal.
Who is right, and who is wrong? Is his thinking that having extra unused addresses already set up for each site is a valid security concern? I know it's theoretically valid, but is it reasonably valid?
Does anyone know who makes a rack LCD console with an integrated digital KVM? with 8 or 16 ports?
Finding many with integrated analog KVM but not digital. APC used to have one, but it was discontinued and not replaced.
Rack space is extremely limited, thus why I am looking for an integrated unit versus two pieces of gear.
@Dashrender Yes as I need to get this going as soon as possible.
I am in need of some volume licensing help for a small business with around 25 users. Can someone recommend a good knowledgeable vendor to assist?
I have been using these recently and love them plus they give you BIOS-level access and virtual media with no limitations.